Hello. I hope you are all well. I was wondering if anybody has experience of developing and managing a webinar programme within their organisation. I am looking to setup such a programme but need some advice around what platforms are best, and how yo
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Our L&D team is having a planning day to look at our priorities and actions for the next year. I have been asked to bring together a team of 8 people ( incl Manager and Team Ldr) to get them to consolidate their learning. It will be one hour
Read more…We’re hot, we’re bothered and we need a way too cool down!!
This week’s hot weather is really taking its toll on us office workers, the air con is just not cool enough and we are longing to be outside catching a tan.
One way we have survived this wee
Read more…A useful blog by Liz Pilling for Training Journal this week talks about the positive impact of being outdoors can have in terms of employee well-being. It informs us that research has found people experience faster recoveries from stress in natural
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I am researching alternative long-service awards for my organisation.
We currently offer the usual additional holidays at 5, 10 and 15 year milestones to long serving colleagues.
I am interested to see what other organisations currently offer ac
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My first post so exciting!
Retracting an applicant due to no communication made after being verbally offered whatsoever. They were due to come into the office with I.D documents, however failed to inform us that they wouldnt be attending. Will
Read more…We've just sent the inital invite to our Christmas Party 2018 out.
We have a staff of 50 and are in Scientific Research and Manufacturing.
We listened and collated all the feedback from last years black tie with partners event and this year decided on
Read more…In the UK, we have enjoyed the hottest early May Bank Holiday Monday ever recorded according to the Met Office. Long may the sunny weather continue over the summer months!
What adjustments does your organisation make , to ensure employees are comfor
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I am looking to improve the way we measure engagement within my organisation...we certainly have a long way to go!
At present, we have a lengthy annual opinion survey, which we usually get around a 70% response rate.
We also have an 'Innovation
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We are looking to introduce a 'Training champions' group within our business to help us embed the learning culture and open up a two way feedback opportunity after some quite big changes to the L&D team offer and the team members.
We are hoping that
Read more…At DPG on Monday, we had a theme day - as you can imagine the theme was Easter. And why not?
We held nominations for the 'Good egg of the Day'.
We held an 'Easter Eggheads' quiz.
We had an Easter themed selfie contest
There was an 'Eggstravaganza Lun
Read more…Love is in the air!!!
While some of us spent last night with our loved ones, and some with our friends, and some even just sat in with a cuppa tea (after all it was a Wednesday) the talk of love has been filling the office this week, as we all celeb
Read more…With the Winter Olympics starting tonight, let’s use this opportunity to encourage colleagues to work in teams and compete in the Office Olympics. I came across an article which shares some great activities and goes into more details around why they
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I have been asked to create a communication plan for the rollout of our HRIS and Learning Management System.
Does anyone have a case study that they would be willing to share that demonstrates some of the key ingredients to getting this right?
Read more…I have recently been looking at ways in which I can develop my knowledge further after completing my LDP programme. I struggled at first using the usual excuses like working full time, Christmas shopping and attending the festive parties.
Then I fou
Read more…Hi, in a few weeks time I have a brainstorming meeting with my peeps at HR and the topic will be on employee engagement and how can we be better at it!
Is there anything that you can share, for instance what your organisation currently does or somethi
Read more…The festive season is fast approaching, the Christmas songs have started, and the shops are filled with decorations, so maybe it’s time to think about how to reward and incentivise your employees over the Christmas period.
Let’s think about why you m
Read more…It’s when workers work too hard for too long and become emotionally and physically exhausted.
It was originally coined in the 1970s to categorise doctors who, through severe stress, had lost interest in their work despite h
Read more…How many emails do you receive in a day? Well in 2015 the average worker received 122 emails per working day…
Emails really do have a bad name, they easily get missed, or misunderstood, they are filled with typos and grammar mistakes and we reply to
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I am currently looking at revamping our Induction to make it more engaging, interactive and less information intensive as it sometimes can be. After recently experiencing an 'Escape Room' I thought it would be a great way to get our new recruits
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